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Souvenir and Views 



En 
Route 
to 
California 



OF 



Union Pacific 



THE OVERLAND ROUTE" 



[THIRD EDITION] 



THE WORLD S PICTORIAL LINE 



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Copyright, May, 1900, by 

E. L. LOMAX, 

General Passenger and Ticket Agent 

Union Pacific Railroad, 

Omaha, Neb. 



UHS2 

Library of Conciress 

Two Copies Received I 
JUL 5. 1900 I 

SECOND COf'V. I 
Delivered to 

OROLK DIVISION, 

JUL 6 1900 




'■THE OVERLAND LIM' 
THE FAMOUS UNION PACIFIC TRAIN, RUNNING TO CALIFORNIA IN TWO NIGHTS 
FROM THE MISSOURI RIVER. 
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"VIA UNION PACIFIC 



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HIS oi-eat national highway is so well known, not only throughout 

the'united States, but all over the world, that a mere reference 

to it would seem sufficient, yet for the benefit of those who have 

never had the pleasure of crossing the continent via this historic 

route, the following description is given : 

It formed a part of the first transcontinental line of railroad from 
ocean to ocean, and was conceived, and its construction authorized, 
'• as a war measure, the needs of the Government during the war of the 
Rebellion having clearly shown the necessity for it. When first talked of, 
many thought the feat of constructing a line of railroad over the Rocky Mountains an 
utter impossibility Many of those who had crossed the plains, deserts, and mountains to 
Tli^Tt.^^-,o ^«i very well a railroad could not be built there, for "how could a 
locomotive ascend 1 mountain where six yoke of oxen could scarcely ^J-l / ^f ^ ^^^^^^ 
Senator Thomas H. Benton of Missouri, m the Senate Chamber of the United States 
February 7 1849, spoke thus: "The road I propose is necessary to us -and now. Ihe 
fitle to Oregon s 'settled, and a government established there. Cahfornia is acquired, 
p ople are tlere, and a government must follow. We own the ^^-^\'^^^ ^^J^^Zi 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, upon a breadth equal to the length of the Mississippi, 

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INTERIOR PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CAR, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAO. 



and embracing the whole temperate zone. We can run a road through and through, the 
whole distance, under our flag and under our laws. An American road to India, through 
the heart of our country, will revive upon its line all the wonders of which we have read, 
and eclipse them. The Western wilderness, from the Pacific to the Mississippi, will start 
into life at its touch. Let us act up to the greatness of the occasion, and show ourselves 
worthy of the extraordinary circumstances in which we are placed, while we can. An 
American road to India — central and natural — for ourselves and our posterity, now and 
hereafter, for thousands of years to come." * 

People who thought for a long time that the whole scheme was wild and visionary, 
began after awhile to realize that out West, on the " Great American Desert." an extremely 
interesting enterprise was afoot, and that whatever came of it, one thing was certain, the 
world had never seen railroad building on so grand a scale, under such overpowering- 
disadvantages, and at such a rapid rate of progress. It opened fresh fields to the news- 
paper correspondents, and a theme of imcommon interest for the press. After the first 
year the newspapers of the country began to be filled with accounts of the progress of 
the work, with descriptions (jf the methods pursued in construction, and the physical aspect 
of the country traversed. Public interest had gradually been wrought up in this way to 
such an extent that during the last year of construction it was the prominent topic ; and 
the progress made in track laying was telegraphed all over the country each day. It cul- 
minated on May lo, 1S69, when in all the large cities in the Union business stood still 
while the telegraph clicked the blows of the hammer that drove the last spike. 

* This is the road — the Union Pacific— "The Overland Route." 








BUFFET SMOKING ANU LIBRARY CAh ON ONluN FA1.IFIC RAILRuAD 



It must be remembered that the line of this road follows, with a few deviations, the old 

emigrant wagon road, not onh' on the plains on the north side of the Platte River, through 

the State of Nebraska, but in fact all the way to Ogden, Utah. In the days of '49-50, 

when long trains of gold seekers, after outfitting at Council BluiTs, wended their way over 

the plains, the country was filled with hostile Indians, herds of buffalo, deer, and antelope. 

There was scarcely a house west of the Elkhorn River, within twenty miles of Omaha. 

Now the traveler sits in a luxurious Pullman car, and is carried over the smooth railroad at 

more than forty miles an hour. There can be seen thousands of acres of rich agricultural land 

under cultivation by the farmer, immense areas of excellent grazing land at the disposal of 

the stock-raiser, growing cities and towns offering unequaled opportunities for capital and 

location of industries, unsurpassed by older sections of the United States. Even the great 

mountains of the West, which we pass, are now opened and have become the source of large 

fortunes to many. It is a pleasant occupation, as one is whirled thus 

swiftly along, to close his eyes and let the present aspect of prosperity 

and thriftiness roll away, and call up scenes of early days which 

have now passed into the history of this country : 

A long train of covered wagons, or prairie schooners, hauled by 

weary looking oxen, which find a scanty subsistence on the 

tufts of buffalo grass, the only feed for stock. In the 

wagons the women and children — a led horse, a faithful 

dog or two, and clouds of dust accompanying the procession. 

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iDiLiN PACIFIC, Wiiijij RIVER ilER 
..■t:i \ne Famous Shcniian Grjv.;l. 




At nightfall fires gleam brightly where brush is obtainable; and the 
picket'' guard established lest the thieving Indians, constantly lurking 
around, should stampede the stock or make an attack on the emi- 
grants,' murder them all, and rob and pillage the train. Herds of 
buffalo come down from the uplands to slake their thirst in the waters 
of the Platte River, and the solitude of night is broken by the shrill 
bark of covotes which hang around the camp to feast upon the debris. 
But the days of weary travel are over. Swiftly moving trains carry 
the traveler more miles in one hour than the emigrants made in two days. 

The Union Pacific is one of, the best railroads in The oidcst mhabnan,, 
America. Its two main stems —one from Kansas City and Leaven- 
worth, the other from Council Bluffs and Omaha — uniting at Chey- 
enne and diverging again at Granger, one for Portland and one for 
San Francisco, are crowded with the commerce of the Orient and 
the Occident, while people from every nation in the world may be seen on its passenger trains. 
Every improvement which htnnan ingenuity has invented for the safety or comfort of the 
traveler is in use on the Union Pacific Railroad, and it has been operated so many years 
(having been finished in 1869) that all weak points at all assailable by the elements have 
been protected, and a trip over it is perfectly safe at all seasons of the year. For nearly 500 
miles west of Council Bluffs and 700 miles west of Kansas City there are no heavy grades 
or curves, and it is ballasted with the famous Sherman gravel. 

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THE UNION PACIFIC 
HAS 
TWO MAIN STEMS. 




INTERIOR DINING CAR, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 



LEAVING Crossing the Missouri River from the Transfer Depot, Council 

COUNCIL BLLTFFS Bluffs, over a magnificent steel bridge of eleven spans, 75 feet 
AND OMAHA. above the water, each span 250 feet long, resting upon immense 

stone piers, Omaha is reached, and the trip across the continent 
to the Pacific Coast is commenced. This metropolis of the West — Omaha — has now 150,000 
inhabitants. From a mud hole Omaha has become one of the best paved cities in the West. 
It has all the substantial and modern improvements of the times, and abounds in business 
palaces of brick, stone, and iron, with smelting furnaces, grain elevators, packing houses, 
distilleries, immense stock and lumber yards, machine shops and foundries, as well as scores 
of manufactories of all kinds. According to the census of 1890, it had a population of 
140,452 : the population in 1880 was 30,518. Leaving Omaha, the train climbs 
over 100 feet in the first four miles, and we commence the journey from 
Missouri River to the " Rockies " over " The Great Plains," a wonderful 
geological formation, which to be appreciated must be seen. Geolo- 
gists tell us that at one time, ages back, here was the bed of a 
prehistoric ocean. Those who whirl by on " The Overland 
Limited " and look upon " The Great Plains " as unworthy of atten- 
tion, may well recall the words of that great scientist, Agassiz, 
who thus describes this wonderful region traversed by the Union 
Pacific Railroad: "That grandest of all glacial deposits, 'The Great 
Plains,' 500 miles wide and 1,000 miles long, stretching from river to 

Waiting Room in New Omaha Station. 12 





UNION PACIFIC BRIDGE (EAST ENTRANCE), ONLY DOUBLE TRACK STEEL BRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER, 

See Page 12. 



mountain * * a mac^nificent earth ocean, rolling up m beautiful green billows along the 

ho e S'the contineiTtal mountains that border it." Immense herds of buffalo, "the oldest 

nhaStant formerly ranged at will over "The Great Plains," but to-day they have given 

J ptce tothe fa" Sne of ch-ilization, and the tmlcle of the village bell calls the lowing herd 

'^°"\:!:;im;"Sir atv or Leavenworth via the Kansas mam lin. one_ passes through 

7:1" ^ . f.ri^iTi.. land of the West and a succession of thriving cities and 

some Of the ^^^^[J^^^^^^^'^^,^ TopeKa, the capital of the State, Junction 

LEAVING Citv,"and other thriving towns. Fn.m Ellsworth to the boundary 

KANSAS CITY line of the State one passes through what a very few years ago 

appeared on all school geographies as the Great American Desert - 

considered a hopeless waste, forever devoted to jack rabbits, prairie dogs, and buffaloes; 

b" as onl rolls'along at a speed of forty miles an hour m a Pullman car, he now sees a 

succession of prosperous communities, and the fields of corn i 

extend as far as the eye can reach. Just west of Ellis one -m 

of the finest grazing regions in the world is entered. ^?' ^ 

The descent is rapid into Denver, 

D'R'WER ^'^^ t-^-iiloc f-rnm TCMnsas Cltv. -^wf- ^r w ■ * "" — ~ ■■' 'U '! ''-' 



f,^n miles from Kansas Citv, i » ^ . ■■ 

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having a population of about .PfVi'lJ*iiijii[iii|iSij|^j_j|_;i j 
180,000. Denver is the queen city of the mountains iSip % J- - - ' ' *• 



and capital of Colorado, the Centennial State. The ^ 

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Union Passenger Station, Denver. 




VIEW OF IJEW UNION STATION AT OMAHA. 



elevation is 5,170 feet above sea level. The city was the base of supply for the mountain 
towns at the time of the famous Pike's Peak gold excitement, long before the Union Pacific 
had even been started -when the plains were dotted with the now almost obsolete prairie 
schooner each bearing the legend "To Pike's Peak or Bust." The gold excitement died out, 
but soon the wonderful richness of the other mineral resources of Colorado became known, 
and since then the growth of Denver has been phenomenal. The dry climate of Colorado is 
said to be unrivaled for all diseases of the lungs, if the patient goes there m time. The trip 
from Denver to Cheyenne, Wyoming, along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, affords a 
kaleidoscopic panorama of hills, fields, farms, rivers, running brooks, and lofty mountains. 

Here the eastern traveler for the first time sees fields of alfalfa of a deep green color, grown 

by the aid of irrigating ditches, the water for which is brought down from the mountains m 

large canals, and thence distributed by means of 

CHEYENNE. smaller ditches. The run of 107 miles 
from Denver to Cheyenne, Wyoming, 

is quickly made. At Cheyenne (516 miles from Omaha), 

the capital of Wyoming, the Kansas main line via 

Denver connects with the Nebraska main line from 

Council Bluffs. Cheyenne, with an altitude of 6,050 

feet, and with a population of 12,000, is one of the 

sprightliest and most prosperous cities in the entire 

West It is well and compactly built, and for many 

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Union Pacific Passengei Station at Cheyenne. 





VIEW OF UNION DEPOT K 



ANSA- CITY, MO 



years has been the center of the cattle industry of the Northwest. Che)-enne was once a 
Id town but is now a well-regulated city, wuh n.any tine stores ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
It constituted for a long time, the outpost of c.viUzatton, becox..ng -"f °f "^^^J^Vefectel 
of border life and is a place of rare historical interest. Here, the Union Pacific has erected 
a handt >me d;pot. at a cost of about $80,000, and it is one of the finest depots -st of Chicago 
Five miles from the city is Fort Russell, one of the largest military posts m the West^ 
Ch've^ne is situated at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, and is distant 516 
miles from Omaha and 746 miles from Kansas City. -i ^^ 

Ifter leaving Cheyenne, the tram climbs a grade of .,000 feet m thirty-three miles to 
Sherman 8 347 feet aboye se^ leyel, and the highest point of the transcontinental nde between 
fhe Mi'iuri Riyer and the Pacific Coast. From Sherman can be seen Long s Peak sixty 
miles away The Ames Monument, a pyramidal granite structure sixty-five f eet_ m height 
'"' with a base sixty feet square, was erected at Sherman by the Union Pacific 
to the memory of the Ames brothers, to whom the completion of the Union 
Pacific was I'argelv due. Hippopotamus Rock is one of the sights of the 
vicinity while the Red Buttes, an object of interest to the tourist, lie just 
beyond the station. The scenery is wild and rugged. Just west of 
Sherman is Dale Creek Bridge, one of the most remarkable sights of the 
overland trip. The structure is of iron, 650 feet long from bluff to 
bluff and 126 feet high, over Dale Creek. From the bridge the 
little stream looks like a tangled silver thread as it glistens m the 
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'TIE ■ SIDINii CANON, ON THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 



sun's brilliant light, which is sifted through the caiion crags and iron netting of the bridge 
far down into the green little valley -a valley where at times can be gathered countless 
wild flowers of nearly every variety and hue. Pike's Peak can be seen away off to the south, 

not less than 165 miles distant. j-„;„^ 

In passing down the mountain from Sherman, and to the westwara, one can see Medicine 
Bow Mountain, whose peaks rise to a height of 12,200 feet and are covered with perpetual 
snow. Medicine Peak is the highest, and is in the midst of great forests, crystal streams, and 
precipitous mountains. (See page 21.) <. ^„„^ 

Looking south and west, from Tie Siding, one can see in the distance a few of the grotesque 
monuments on Sand Creek, a place unknown to the tourist, but a region of rare interest, and 
one that before long will equal, if not surpass, the Garden of the Gods in Colorado. 

In looking northward, when from twenty to thirty miles north of Laramie, one can see 
the crest of Laramie Peak, the old landmark that guided the early travelers across the p ams 
and mountains. Laramie, twenty-two miles west of Sherman, often called the Gem City of 
the Rockies," has an elevation of 7,i49 feet above sea level, and a population 
LARAMIE, of about 6,000. It is one of the principal towns on the mam line of the 
Union Pacific between Council Bluff's and Ogden. It is situated on Big 
Laramie River, fifty-seven miles northwest of Cheyenne, and is an important market for 
wool. Its schools are good, and the University of Wyoming and the United States Peni- 
tentiary are located here. Just southeast of the town is located the State fish hatchery at 
Soldier Springs. This has a capacity of hatching half a million trout at a time, and 



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MEDlClfiE: PEAK, //EST OF SHERMAN WYOMING, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 

See Page 20, 



with these the streams and lakes of Wyommg are be:no- rapidly stocked wuh the finest 

^°°'l^;' :Lat \::a1:!ie Pla^s, .vhich stretch away for miles on either side^ a., of great 
interest ^Between Laramie and Rawlins, Elk Mountain is constantly m sight. This mountam 
interest, iiel^ _^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ .^^^ ^^.^^^^^ ^^^ .^ ^^^^ terminus of the Medicine 

THE GREAT Bow Mountains. Another" famous landmark is Chimney Rock, a 

T ^R\MIE PLAINS few miles southwest of Laramie. But few people have any ^dea, 
LARAMifc ri..-^ . ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^_^ ^^_^^.^_^^^ ^^_^^ ^^^^ mountain ranges, the deep canons, 

fertile plains, and great d;serts ^f Wyoming, that they are in the midst of one of the greatest 
treasure-locked re-ions of the entire world. What are these treasures ? They are the remains 
of huo-e leptUes so large that onlv those with a vivid imagination can form any adequate 
ea of thlr :Se; huge^ mammals' of elephantme dimensions, mingled ^^^^^^;- 
of laro-e animals that have long been extinct; besides such as came s. ihmoceroses 
do. cats elephants, and monkeys; great sea monsters that were truh" sea serpents 
fish ; thai compare favorably with the finny tribe of our great lakes ; shell-fish almost 
fntmerable. and fossil leaves that prove that in early ages Wyoming -- ^^1--^^ ,f *f^ 
with trees o tropical and semi-tropical verdure. Wyoming is the geological wondeiland of 
he world Within the confines of the big Western State are the most extensive and 
ertileossil fields known. Its sagebrush plains are, indeed, one vast prehistoric burying 
groid. ani sLnce has summoned them to give up their dead. Wyommg is the .est^ng 
place of the petrified bones of the largest land animals that ever lived. After already 




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CHI-vlNEr RjCK, NtAR LARAMIE, WYOMING, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, 
See Page 22 



bequeathing- to geological science the rarest of fossil treasures, the State is again writing a 
strange chapter in the world's geological history by unearthing the petrified bones of the 
most colossal animal ever taken from the earth's strata. Work of collecting from this 
geological wonderland commenced in the '40s, and, during the years since, Wyoming has 
been a favored collecting ground for the leading geologists and paleontologists of the 
entire country. The early expeditions encountered the treacherous Sioux, but were not 
baffled, though they had to " outfit " on the Missouri River and travel 400 miles or more 
by team before entering the field. The advent of the Union Pacific Railroad added vigor 
to the research work, and from that day to this not a season has passed but several 
expeditions have spent the summer in the Wyoming fields.* 

Eighty-three miles west of Laramie is Carbon, in the coal regions, a town of considerable 
importance, having a population of about 800. 

North of Rawlins, from twenty-five to forty miles, are the Ferris Mountains, which are 
well known for their coal and iron mines, and havt worthy prospects of gold, copper, and lead. 

Rawlins, fifty-three miles farther west, a town of 2,800 people, is named after Gen. John 
A. Rawlins, chief of staff for General Grant during the war, and afterward Secretary of War 
during Grant's first term as President. 



* In June last the Union Pacific Railroad Company issued a large number of invitations to colleges, universities, and 
museums doing work in geology, to participate in an exploring and collecting tour through the fossil fields of Wyoming. 
Fifty-two institutions of learning and research, from California to Massachusetts, and from Minnesota to Texas, were repre- 
sented in this expedition, which offered so great an opportunity for geological observation and study. Over seventy tons of 
fossils were collected during this trip. 

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ELK tvlOUrjTAIIJ, /v" TOMINli. SEEN AT MAiMV POiNTS BETWEEN RArtLINi AND LARAMlE. 

ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 

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Sixty miles sotith of Rawlins is Grand Encampment, the famous mmmg district. This 

lono- ago, was a wild waste, a primeval foi-est of cataracts, of somber canons and 

" mountain crags, the habitation alone of the American eagle, of elk, 

GRAND deer, antelope, and bear- to-day it is the Mecca of the hopes of a 

^■^ r ...i,:„i, ^;ii;^r,o r,f thp parth have " sweat. 



ENCAMPMENT. million people. Gold, for which millions of the earth have 

bled and died," was not supposed to have its treasure vaults m this 
portion of the "Great Rockies," whose mastodon, rock-bound ribs rise thousands of feet 

^'i:::S^\:^Z^^.o. by mountain barriers for a hundred miles to ^^e east wes. ar^ 
south-here, in the very heart of the foothills of ^l-Siein-aMadre range of the ConUnental 
Divide -IS thought to have been discovered one of the world's greatest gold helds. A stage 
line has been constructed fifty-five miles in a due southerly direction to the town of Grand 

"""tZ" miles west of Rawlins is Continental Divide (altitude y.ioo feet). Standing on this 
wild spot, surrounded by few evidences of vegetation, this little sign marks the centei of the 
grandest range of mountains on the continent. i v, • i^.c qHll farther the 

To the north the Sweet Water Mountains rear their rugged heights. Still farther the 
Wind River Mountains close the scene m the dim distance their summits '^^^l^^' tZn 
the southward rise rugged outposts of the Rockies, along the northern base of which oui train 

""'Si^l^'IjSenty-one miles west of Rawlms is Rock Springs. In this locality 




:e^r te siding, on union pacific railroad. 

See Paec 20. 



there are immense coal beds, and this is the place made famous by the massacre of Chinese 
laborers a few years ago. 

Fifteen miles west of Rock Springs is Green River ; elevation, 6,077 feet ; 1,075 miles 
distant from Kansas City, and 847 iniles distant from Council Bluffs. Green River is the end 
of a division, and has a population of about 1,300. There are many objects of interest in 
and around Green River, among which are the peculiar clay buttes by which it is surrounded. 

Here the trains for Portland, Oregon, via the Oregon 

ACROSS THE CONTINENT Short Line Railroad, are made up, althoi:gh they do not 

TO PORTLAND make their departure from the main line until Granger 

AND TO SAN FRANCISCO, is reached (thirty miles west of Green River), where the 

trip across the continent is continued to the great North- 
west. (Sir "■Union Pacific Souvenir and Vic7vs en rontc to Oi'cgon." ) From Green River the 
trip across the continent to San Francisco is continued. Three miles west of Green River 
is Fish Cut. Green River Buttes are objects of interest, and are within sight for miles. 
Granger, thirty miles west of Green River, has within a period of forty years been at times 
a noted and busy place. A j\lr. Granger fathered the ranch for over twenty years. At first it 
was a Mormon trading-post with both Indians and pilgrims. Being sit- 
GRANGER. uated at the junction of the South Pass and Bitter Creek wagon roads from 
the East to Salt Lake via Fort Bridger, where good feed and water could 
be had, it became a general lying-over and resting point for emigrants and freighters. 
To the south rise in plain view the Uintah Mountains, fully 100 miles away. Their dark 

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GREEN RIVER- BLUFFS, .. .^,V,,,»u, ON UNiON PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
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sides indicate forests of timber, while on their summits the snow ever rests. The valley of the 
Beaver lies at the northern base of the range, is settled, and is one of the most productive 
sections of the Territory. Corn, potatoes, vegetables, and small grains grow and yield abun- 
dantly. ]im Bridger and other trappers of the American Fur Company made this valley 
their headquarters as early as 1825. 

After passing Granger, Evanston, the last town of importance in Wyoming, with a popu- 
lation of 2,Soo, is soon reached. It is situated just half-way between the Missouri River and 
the Pacific Ocean — Omaha and San Francisco. The citizens of Evanston are mostly engaged 
in coal mining, coke burning, lumbering, and stock raising. The railroad company has a large 
roundhouse, extensive machine shops for repairs, large freight buildings, and one of the largest 
station hotels on the system. At Wasatch Station, the summit of the Wasatch range of 
mountains is reached. The elevation is 6,824 feet, and at this point the road reaches Echo 
Creek, which runs through the caiion. Echo Creek is crossed thirty-one times in twenty-six 
miles. Three and a half iniles west of Wasatch the train runs into a tunnel 900 feet long. 

The Wasatch Mountains, Utah, are unsurpassed in magnificent cairons, and there are a 
dozen of the grandest within easy reach of Salt Lake City and Ogden ; not one of these but 
invites the tourist to spend days, weeks, or months of healthful pleasure among their wild 
recesses, to fish, to hunt, to scale the peaks and ridges, or to gather wild flowers by the sides of 
mossy springs, beneath the shadows of umbrageous pines. Even to those whose eyes behold 
the mountains all the year round, their great passes with their stupendous walls of naked rocks, 
their charming glens, their groves of pine and aspen, their nooks and corners of sylvan solitude. 




BLUFFS OF GREEN RIVER, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD 
See Page 28, 



offer irresistible attractions, so that every summer sees half the city populace leaving dull care 
behind to go to the mountains and enjoy the delicious coolness of the days and nights. 

Echo Caiion, through which the train now winds its way (between Echo and Wasatch 
stations), is a superb defile. Says an English traveler: " It moves along like some majestic 

poem in a series of incompai'able stanzas. There is nothing like it in 
ECHO CANON. the Himalayas that I know of, nor in the Suliman Range. In the Bolan 

Pass, on the Afghan frontier, there are intervals of equal sublimity; and 
even as a whole it may compare with it. But taken for all in all — its length (some 
thirty miles), its astonishing diversity of contour, its beaut}', as well as its grandeur — I 
confess that Echo Caiion is one of the masterpieces of Nature." 

The enthusiasm of this writer is no exaggeration, for rain, wind, and time have combined 
to destroy the massive walls of Echo but in vain. Centuries have come and gone, and still the 
mighty walls of Echo remain, bidding defiance alike to time and elements — pillar and column, 
dome and spire, still standing boldly forth in all their grand and entrancing beauty to fill the 
mind of the beholder with wonder and awe. 

On the north side of the track a long line of sandstone bluffs appears. 
CASTLE ROCKS. These bluffs bear the general name of "Castle Rocks," and in places 

are worn and torn awaj-, until in the distance they have the appearance 
of old feudal castles. For a long distance these rocks line the canon on the north side, their 
massive, jaggy points towering from 500 feet to 1,000 feet high. 

Castle Rocks are some of the most perfect of all those striking objects in Echo Canon, 




ECHO CANON, UTAH. TRAVERSED BY UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
See Page 32, 



whose vast proportiuns show them to be the work of Nature al<jne, and yet whose sym- 
metrical forms and adherence to architectural rules seem to stamp them as the works of man. 

The cliffs, as we approach from the west, are high, barren, and savage in form. In color 
also the}- change. Here they are almost a blood red color, while as we approach the head of 
the canon they are of a yellowi.sh grav, in some places even ashen. The .slender stream 
creeping along beneath them is fringed with the hardy willow, and on every shelf, and up to 
the summits of the rocks the dwarf cedars have obtained a footing, their russet foliage and 
dark spots of shadow giving a mottled appearance to the landscape. 

At one point we are carried past a chaos of tumbled rock ; the whole face of a lofty cliff 
has fallen at once, leaving the part yet standing of a fresh bright hue that it will take a thou- 
sand years of summer sunshine and winter frost to tone back into the general color of the sur- 
rounding heights. One can well imagine the roar, the volume of sound, that went rolling 
across the hills when fell that mass. 

From such a point of view as Hanging Rock, or the ridges above 
HANGING ROCK, it, a much better idea of what one may term the tumultuousness of 
the surrounding country can be obtained than from the bed of the 
caiion. The earth is split by a score of transverse ravines, which extend like blue veins 
from the main artery and mar the face of the country with shadow; isolated columns, 
positive and brilliant in color, stand alone in their chromatic glory, without a visible 
connection with the main rock from which they were originally detached ; odd groups of 
conglomerate, much like inverted wineglasses in shape, and plainly banded with several 

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THE SPHINX, IN ECHO CAfj.rj ...T.H, u,, U,JIon P. 
See Page 36. 



strata of color, sprout like so many monstrous mushrooms ; and clasping all within their basin 
are the circling mountains of the Wasatch and Uintah ranges — silvered with perpetual snow 
on their acute summits, and beautifully blue where covered with pines. These two chains are 
among the most picturesque of all the western mountains. They fairly bristle with peaks and 
lateral ranges, and they soar from the plain at a bound, so to speak, without the concealment 
and dwarfing effect of foothills. 

Two and a half miles west of Emory, on top of the bluff, is a rock called "Jack in the 
Pulpit," and farther on can be seen The Sphinx, and the heights of Echo Caiion, on top of 
which are the old ]\[ormon fortifications, and Giant's Teapot, Great Eastern, and Steamboat 

Rocks, Utah. The traveler, as he stands by the ruins of the 

GIANT'S TEAPOT, temples of the Nile or lingers in the caves of Elephantis, 

GREAT EASTERN, AND feels crushed beneath the weight of years that have passed 

STEAMBOAT ROCKS. since their making. What then must he feel as he looks on 

those towering walls of Echo Caiion ; those mighty carvings 
— old ere the walls of Karnac were new, or the language of the Egyptians framed — 
gigantic monoliths and inspiring masonry rising in tiers from one to a hundred feet in 
thickness, and hanging at a dizzy altitude in the blue sky above his head. 

Hurrying past castle, cathedral, towering column, and rugged 
PULPIT ROCK, UTAH. battlement, passing lateral canons which cut the walls from 

crest to base in awful chasms, shooting over bridges and 
flying past and under the overhanging walls, and finally round the caiion wall to the 

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STEAMBOAT ROCKS, IN ECHO CANON, UTAH, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
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northward, into Echo Canon and along Echo Creek, are seen the " Amphitheatre " and 
" Bromley Cathedral," and the noted Pulpit Rock, famous the world over. This is so called 
both from its shape and from the supposition that Brigham Young preached from it his first 
sermon in Utah, addressed to the pioneers, then on their way to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. 

Echo Station, where Weber Caiion is entered, is situated on the 
WEBER CANON. eastern bank of Weber River. Beyond the Weber rise the scattering 

tree, shrub, and grass covered slopes of the Wasatch Mountains, 
nearly 2,000 feet from the river bed ; to the east rise cliffs, sheer 1,000 feet. Weber River 
rises in the Wasatch Mountains, about seventy miles south of Echo, and empties into Salt 
Lake, just below Ogden. The valley above Echo is very fertile and thickly settled. 

Weber Cafion is one of the remarkable features of the road. For thirty-five miles, except- 
ing now and then a little valley a few miles in width, the river rushes, foaming along, between 
two massive mountain walls. Now the torrent plunges over some mighty rock which has 
fallen from the towering cliff 1,000 feet above ; anon, it whirls around in frantic struggles to 
escape from the boiling eddy, thence springing forward over a short, smooth rapid, only to 
repeat the plunge again and again, until i.t breaks forth into the plains, whence it glides away 
toward the lake, as though exhausted with its wild journey through the caiaon. 
' "As on the Rhine," says an eloquent writer, "the long stretch of the river from Mainz to 
Cologne has been for years, by acknowledgment, the ' River,' so that portion of the Union 
Pacific through the Weber Caiion, lying between Ogden and Echo, in this northern part of 
Utah, will some day be that part of the journey across the center of the continent which will 



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be especially regarded by the tourist as necessary to be seen beyond all others. It is one of the 
most celebrated of Western caiions. Long after the Pacific journey is as hackneyed to Euro- 
peans and Americans as the Rhine tour is now, this part will keep its freshness among the most 
marked scenes of the journey. It is a place which cities and settlements can not destroy." 

Leaving Echo but a short distance, those peculiar red, yellow, and 
gray conglomerates — called "Witches' Rocks " — stand forth in some 
prominence on the side of the cliff to the right. These were first 
sketched by one Frederick Piercy, an English artist, who, in the 
first days of Mormon emigration, was employed by that church to 
As he humorously admits, after stating that he named the group 
as a compliment to the ladies, it is doubtful, after all, if the fair sex will accept as a 
compliment the naming of such an odd assemblage in their honor. 

Entering the first narrows of the canon, the 1,000-Mile Tree is passed, 
standing on the south side of the track — a thrift}^, branching pine 
— bearing a legend, swinging from one of the lower limbs, that tells 
the western-bound traveler that he has passed over 1,000 miles of 
The famous tree has long marked this place. Long before the hardy 
Mormons passed down the wild gorges, long before the great Overland Route was dreamed 
of, it stood a lonely sentinel amid the silent desolation. Just below this tree, the cars cross 
a trestle bridge to the left bank of the Weber, thence down but a short distance, before they 
cross over another trestle to the right-hand side, and then, almost opposite the bridge, on the 

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THE 

WITCHES' ROCKS, 

UTAH. 

illustrate " The Route. 



ONE THOUSAND 
MILE TREE. 

railroad from Omaha. 




ES' ROCKS IN WEBER CANON, UTAH, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, 
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side of the mountain to the left, can be seen the famous Devil's Slide, 
or serrated rocks. This slide is composed of two ridges of "Tanite rock, 

reaching from the river nearly to the summit 

THE of a sloping, grass-clad mountain. They arc 

DEVIL'S SLIDE. from fifty to two hundred feet high, narrow 

slabs, standing on edge, as though forced oiu 
of the mountain side. The two ridges run parallel with each other — 
about ten feet apart, the .space between being covered with grass, wild 

flowers, and climbing vines. This most wonderful of all natural curios- The oevii s bui, 

ities is world-famous. It has been sketched and painted and photographed times without end; 
and truly it is a singular formation. It has been declared to be without grandeur, and this 
is true ; it has no pretensions in this line, but its singularity makes it so conspicuous. 
Throughout the entire country, although there are a number of similar formations, there 
is nothing at all approaching it in fantastic appearance. 

A short distance before reaching Croyden are Tunnels " Number 
Three " and " Number Four," among some of the highest, most 
vertical walls of Weber Caiion. The Weber River here swerves 
from side to side; one moment we see it dashing along by our side, 
at another it shoots away at right angles from our path to double 
some projecting bastion of the great rugged.-mountains. Here its 
waves are flowing away from us, and now they come forward, white and loud-voiced, to 

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TUNNELS 

NUMBER THREE' 

AND 

"NUMBER FOUR" 




1,000-MILE TREE IN WEBER CANON, UTAH, ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
See Page 40 



shoot beneath our feet, as we in tui"n dash out on one of the many bridges that cross the 
stream. The whistle is ever sounding, for the dusty road of the settler and the path of 
the iron steed cross and recross each other constantly. 

Proceeding through the " Round Valley," a valley formed by nature as round and 
smooth as a race track, the ^Mormon town of Morgan is left behind, and Petersen, situated in 
the midst of the caiion, is seen as the train speeds along. Now between towering mountains 
the train rushes into a dark, gloomy gorge, when suddenly the whistle shrieks — the echo 
resounding from crag to crag — as it approaches the passes to the wild scenery of the Devil's 

Gate. As may be inferred from the name, it is a gateway, the 

THE DEVIL'vS GATE, western entrance to Weber Caiion, a passage riven through the 

UTAH. mountain. The Weber River comes roaring through the open 

space, bringing with it a wind that never ceases. The train does 
not pass through the gate, but crosses a trestle bridge directly in front, and thus we see the 
place better than if the train passed through. To get the strongest impression of the scene 
we should view its gloomy surroundings tmder the eifect produced by a stormy sky; but it is 
always impressive, though more so when the storm clouds come dashing across the opening 
above, and are caught and are torn to pieces on the sharp crags of the mountain tops. 

Passing the last and blackest of the buttresses which guard the entrance into Weber 
Caiion, we arrive at Uintah. The country widens into the Great Salt Lake Valley. The first 
view of the valley, after the surfeit of mountain scenery, is one of striking contrast, quiet and 
pleasant to the eye — with its broad plains and well-cultivated fields — where the traveler 

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DEVIL'S GATE, IN WEBER CANON, UTAH. ON UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
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is fairly in the Great .Salt Lake Basin, having dropped 2,322 feet since leaving Wasatch. 
Near this station, in 1862, was the scene of the notorious Morriste massacre. From Uintah 
the route is through a country dotted with fertile and well-tilled farms, leading to Ogden 
and Salt Lake City. 

The entrance of Ogden Canon, or "mouth," as it is called in Western parlance, is plainly 
seen from the depot, with the cliffs beyond, that excite so much admiration from all tourists. 

Three miles from the town, just before we enter between the rocky heights, 

OGDEN we cross over -a slight rise in the road, and get that much-vaimted bench view 

CANON. of which all Ogdenites are so proud. It is a striking scene, and perhaps the 

most extensive and diverse piece of landscape to be seen on the entire trip 
across the continent. The valley of Ogden, with its two rivers, the Ogden and Weber, 
and the city itself, embowered in foliage, makes up the middle distance and foreground. 
The Great Salt Lake, with its many islands, stretches along the horizon. 

Ogden is one of the western termini of the Union Pacific. It has an elevation of 
about 4,301 feet above the sea level, is 1,034 miles from Council Bluffs, 1,261 miles from 

Kansas City, and 833 miles from San Francisco. The scene from the depot is 
OGDEN. picturesque enough in itself to claim attention, and it has been noticed by 

many. To the tourist there is something particularly striking in the motley 
assembly of onlookers that gather aroimd the depots in our Western t:)\vns. In importance, 
as a commercial and railway center, Ogden is second in the State to Salt Lake City. Its 
people are wideawake and progressive, and its future is assured as one of the busy and 

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prosperous cities of the inter-mountain region. Passengers arriving, who desire to visit Salt 
Lake City — distance thirty-six miles — will find a train in waiting at the depot. It will leave 
as soon as mails, express, and baggage can be transferred, about thirty minutes. All trains 
arrive and depart from the west side of the new union depot. The trains of the Southern 
Pacific are usually made up and waiting when the trains of the Union Pacific arrive. 
It then usually requires about one hour to make all necessary transfers before starting 
— but it's well to see to procuring sleeping-car and other tickets, if required, and the 
transfer of your hand baggage, and getting located as soon as convenient. 

Or " Zion," as the city is often called by the Mormon faithful, is one 
SALT LAKE CITY, of the most beautifully and pleasantly located of cities. It is situated 

at the foot of a spur of the Wasatch Mountains, the northern 
limits extending on to the " bench " or upland which unites the plain with the mountain, 
and is reached from Ogden via the Oregon Short Line Railroad. 

The streets are 132 feet wide (including sidewalks twenty feet wide), bordered with 
shade trees and laid out at right angles. Along each side of the street is a clear, cold 
stream of water from the mountain cations, which, with the numerous shade trees, fruit 
orchards, and gardens surrounding every residence, gives the city an indescribable air of 
coolness, comfort, and repose. 

The Temple is usually about the first object of interest that a traveler looks for on 
arriving in Salt Lake Cit}'. The dimensions of the foundations are 187^^x99 feet. The 
site of the Temple is in the center of the city on the bench land, and the eastern half 

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MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, REACHED VIA UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. 



of wiiat is known as "Temple Bloek " — the Tabernacle and Assembly Ruildiny being on the 
western half. 

The Temple Building is of white granite from Little Cottonwood Caiion; was commenced 
February 14, 1S53, completed in 1S93, and the cost has been not less than $10,000,000. 

The Tabernacle is an immense building — the first object one beholds on approaching the 
city. The building is oblong in shape, having a length of 250 feet from east to west, by 150 
feet in width. The roof is supported by forty-six columns of cut sandstone, which, with the 
spaces between used for doors, windows, etc., constitute the wall. From these pillars or walls 
the roof springs in one unbroken arch, forming the largest self-sustaining roof on the continent, 
with one notable exception, the Grand Union Depot, New York. The ceiling of the roof is 
sixty-three feet above the floor. In one end of this egg-shaped building is the organ, the 
second in size in America. The Tabernacle is used for church purposes, as well as other large 
gatherings of the people, and will seat 13,000 people. 

Garfield Beach is eighteen miles from Salt Lake City, on the shores of the Great Salt 
Lake. During the season, trains run back and forth at frequent intervals during the day and 
evening. It is the only real sand beach on the lake, and is considered by inany to be the finest 
in the world. It should be, and will be, the great resort of the continent. The waves are 
a bright blue cjr green, and as they dance on its surface, it would be hard to tell which color 
prevails. In the long sunny days of June, July, August, and September the water becomes 
delightfully warm, much warmer than the ocean. It is twenty-one per cent salt, while the 
ocean is only three per cent. The water is so dense that a person is sustained on its surface 

5° 




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=.lACk, rock, great salt lake, reached /IA UNlOtJ PAC1F,C RAILROAD, 
See P?ge 50 



indefinitely without effort. Experience has proven its great hygienic effects. Owing to the 
stimulating effect of the brine upon the skin, or the saline air upon the lungs, or both together, 
the appetite is stimulated, and after a bath, bathers are ready for a hearty meal. A fine 
bath-house has been erected at Garfield Beach, in connection with which there is a first-class 
restaurant and a large dancing pavilion built out in the lake. At the restaurant excellent 
meals can be had during the entire season. The buildings at Garfield Beach are modern, have 
every convenience, and were erected at a great cost. Returning 
LEAVING OGDEX. to Ogden, the trip across the continent to San Francisco is continued 
over the Central Pacific Railroad. The train soon passes Promontory, 
which was originally intended to be the point of junction of the two lines forming the 
transcontinental route, namely, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. Later, 
Ogden was decided upon as a compromise. 

The traveler over the Union Pacific sees very few things aside from the physical features 
and general topography of the place to remind him of the scenes which occurred at Promon- 
tory, Utah, on Monda}^, May, 1869. 

It was here that the last rail was laid and the golden spike driven which united the Union 
and Central Pacific roads, and completed a work whose chief significance was that hereafter 
the Great East and the Great West were indeed but a single country, " one and indivisible." 

Westward from Promontory the tourist passes successively Rozel, Lake, and Monument, 
all closely adjacent to the Great Salt Lake. Repeated views of the Great Salt Lake are 
obtained after Ogden is left behind, but at Monument the last glimiDse is taken. 

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The boundary separating Utah and Nevada is crossed near Tccoma, and the tourist finds 
himself in the famous Silver State, and henceforward, if he is ever so slightly informed of 
what lies before him, will look forward to a journey through a land of wonders. 

Wells, or to give it the name by which the place was known years before the advent of the 
railroad, Humboldt Wells, 614 miles east of San Francisco, and 5,628 feet above the level of the 
sea. It is a place of considerable importance as compared with many other stations along the 
line. Leaving Wells behind, the train speeds along the fertile valley of the Humboldt, doubly 
lovely in the eyes of the traveler after the view of the Great Salt Lake Desert, which he has 
left behind. Tales are told of these regions now waste and desolate, where of old beautiful 
streams gave unbounded fertility to the soil, making it fruitful for the support of a teeming 
population which, tradition says, one day dwelt there. Many traces of these vanished water 
courses yet remain. 

The train flits by Elko and in due time reaches Carlin, 535 miles east of San Francisco, 
4,897 feet above the sea. 

From Palisade and Battle ^lountain narrow gauge roads run southward ; the first, to the 
mining district of Eureka, and the second to the important city of Austin. The main line 
continues on, however, in a general southwest-by-west direction through the " lake district " 
named Palisade, Gravelly Ford. Beowawe, toward Reno, the California boundary line, and 
beautiful Tahoe. 

The Palisades of the Humboldt, which give their name to the station alread}' mentioned, 
are a most striking feature of the scenery along the road through the Silver State. They 

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inclose the famous Twelve Mile Caiion, the great walls rising i,ooo feet in the air, Red Cliff 
and the Devil's Peak soaring up amid the rest as special objects of interest. 

At Beowawe (the Indian equivalent for our English "gate"), the Humboldt River forces 
its way through a great gap in the Red Mountains, and the fact has been made good use of by 
those whose work it has been to open a road for the purposes of man. Another station and 
town to be passed is Winnemucca, named for the famous old Piute chief. 

The Nevada desert is entered at Lovelock, the line of road no longer following the valley 
of the Humboldt, which stream insures fertility to a considerable extent of territory. 

Reno, the most important commercial city in Nevada, is the point from which the Nevada, 
California & Oregon and the Virginia & Truckee and Carson & Colorado railroads branch off 
from the trunk line. The Carson road gives access to the capital city of the same name, Vir- 
ginia City, and other towns of the district famous as the seat of the great " Comstock " and 
other mines which, since being first opened, have added vastly to the wealth of the Pacific 
Coast and the whole world. The great mines of Virginia City and the Sutro Tunnel attract 
numerous visitors. 

The marvelous Carson and Humboldt sinks in which the waters of all the rivers in the 
State of Nevada, save one, are swallowed ; the mud lakes, the borax marshes, and countless 
numbers of thermal springs, have been the wonder of the scientist and the delight of the 
totirist. 

Since passing Ogden the train has only once been at a less altitude than 4,000 feet, and 
then only during a run of a few miles near Lovelock. After leaving Reno, the ascent still 

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HEATHER LAKE. HIGH SIERRAS, ON THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD. 



goes on. Up, steadily higher, winds the road over the mountain shjpe, following as it goes 
the caiion sides, between which dashes the foaming Truckee River. The traveler is in the 
Sierra Nevada now, and feasts his eyes as he will on the wonders and beauties of the wildest 
mountain scenery. At the same time he will marvel at the stupendous character of the 
work which was accomplished when this section of the great transcontinental road was built. 
Near Truckee are the famed and favorite resorts of Weber and Donner Lake, 
LAKE and greatest of all Lake Tahoe. In this vicinity objects of more than ordinary 

TAHOE. interest are to be found. 

A few miles west of Verdi the State line is crossed, and the traveler is at last in 
California, the famed Golden State. 

Boca, the lirst town fairly in the vState of'California, is arrived at and passed, and still the 
ascent continues. Truckee, the famous mountain city, 5,891 feet above the sea, is reached at last. 

Fourteen miles beyond is Summit, 1,126 feet higher still, and here, as the name of the 
station indicates, the highest point (m the road is reached. 

From here the descent is rapid, the road winding down through mile after mile of moun- 
tain scenery, stupendous and awe-inspiring in its magnificent grandeur. 

Stations, the names of which smack of the old days of rocker and pan, and shovel, pass by 
— Emigrant Gap, where the old ox-trail of the hardy Argonauts is still a feature of interest ; 
Blue Canon, Shady Run, Towles, Alta, and Dutch Flat. Now, however, while mining is still 
pursued, the land is blooming with orchards, for the husbandman is pressing the gold-seeker 
hard. 

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HOTEL DEL MONTE, MONTERE., CALIFORNIA, ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 



Clipper Gap, Auburn, New Castle, Penryn, and Loomis are all points already famed 
amoni^ the fruit-producing centers of the State. 

In due time Roseville Junction is reached, the point at which the Oregon Line branches 
off, and which is notable also, inasmuch as here the tourist finds himself fairly on the floor, so 
to speak, of the Sacramento Valley, with the mountains completely left behind. 

For eighteen miles farther he glides on his way amid the quiet and lovely scenery of the 
Sacramento River bottom, to find himself landed at last in the blooming city of the same 
name, the capital of the great State of California. 

From Sacramento the Central Pacific Railroad branches off via Lathrop to Los Angeles, 
from which many prominent cities and noted resorts of California are readily reached. 

Leaving Benicia, once the capital of the State, and Porta Costa behind, the train approaches 
the final end of the journey, now less than an hour distant. On the right for the entire dis- 
tance spreads the magnificent expanse of San Francisco Bay. A delightful ride along the 
bayside brings us to beautiful tree-bowered Oakland, from which point the first glimpse of 
the Pacific is obtained, the Golden Gate opening clearly before the traveler's ej-es. At 
Oakland a transfer is made across the bay. This marks the last stage of the overland journey. 
Before the gazing eyes of the tourist, as he stands on the upper deck, rise forests of masts 
lining the wharves of the water front. Beyond are heights and slopes and levels o-f a great 
city. Massive blocks, graceful spires and steeples rise high in the air. 

A few moments more, and the traveler is at the gate of the Occident and the Orient — 
at the Golden Gate — the Mecca of his pilgrimage. 

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THE MARIPOSA BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA. 



JUL 5 19U0 



A trip to California, in regal splendor, can be made on "The Overland 
Limited", the celebrated Union Pacific train. This train runs via the 
"Overland Route", the established route across the continent. 
It has perhaps the most finely equipped cars in the world. 
There are Double Drawing-Room Palace Sleepers, 
broad-vestibuled Cars throughout, Buffet Smok- 
ing and Library Cars with Barber Shops and 
Pleasant Reading-Rooms, Dining Cars, 

meals being served a la carte, and 
every delicacy is provided. The cars 
are illuminated with the famous Pintsch 
Light and heated with steam. A notable feature 
is that safety, perfect comfort, and- speed are all in- 
cluded. Only three nights from Chicago and two from 
Missouri River before reaching San Francisco. You can leave 
Omaha on " The Overland Limited " after breakfast, and reach the 
Pacific Coast as soon as those who start via any other route the day before. 



Union Pacific.-*.^ 

"THE OVERLAND ROUTE." 

BOSTON. MASS. 176 Washington Street. 

l: TKNliKoKl'iv. (ieneral E:istfiii Ai^i-ul 

WII.I.Alcli MASSEY. New Kn^'lanU Fieit'Ut and r;ib.v(i]t'er Ajjfnt. 
BUFFALO. N Y.-301 Mam Street. 

.\ LI .MH.il 1ST. TiaveliiiK Passenger Agent. 
CHKYENNE. WYO. - 

r w SWEET. Tu'ket an<l Freitilit. Atrent. 
CHICAGO. ILL 191 South Clark Street. 

\v. T HOLLY. (iriiciMl .Vu-nr l'ass.-m,'t.-r D.-partment. 
CINCINNATI, OHIO-Room 36. Carew BuilclinB. 

A. (;. SHI'; \l;M \N i;rii..r il Ak'..-nt rassi'iij,'fr iJfpartnicut. 
CLEVELAND. OHIO 137 The Arcade. 

\. C. sHi: AliM .\N. Ill ri. r.il .\Keiit Eas^. Ilger Depaltment. 
COUNCIL BLUFFS. IOWA - 

.1. \V .MAY.N \ltl). Ti.-k. I Au'ent, Transft-r Depot. 

.1 <■ Mni'HIil.L. Illy li.k.-t Ap.-iit, .5-J'J Broadway. 
DENVER. COLO. 941 Seventeenth Street. 

Iil-:'l .\l>^'. tlrririal .\triail EasM-lit,'fr Wrpartment. 
DES MOINES. IOWA-401 W^alnut Street. 

.1 W 'in; ILK. Trav,.|iiiL' ra^si-Iii.'.r At'i-lil. 
DETROIT. MICH. -67 Woodward Avenue 

A .1 l: \T<'LI1*'FE. Micluk'.in Eass.-iiirer At.'ent. 
INDIANAPOLIS. IND.-7 Jackson Place. 

.1 H .ll'NE. Tr,iv,.|iair I'as^riit'er Au-ellt 
KANSAS CITY. MO lOCO Main Street. 

.1 l; I'M; \\\'!,l':'i' i;. Ti.Tal \i.'.'iit I'aH.seuu'-'r D-'IJartment. 
LEAVENWORTH. KAN. 228 Delaware Street. 

.Ins |i IIIKLKY I'llv Tn'k.l AKi'Ut. 

LINCOLN. NEB -1044 O Street. 

\'\ It sLf'Ssov, Agent. 
LONDON. ENG. 

T. V. WILSON (ipnernl European Agent, 123 Pall MaU. 

THOS. COOK & SONS, Ludgate Circus. 

S. A. HUTCHISON, A. (!. P 



|^f^l«*««^|-|^*l rcijarding the territory traversed by the UNION 
llllvl lllHllvll Pacific, or the various resorts along the line, will be 



L'lieerfully furnished 
tative of the Union 



:ipplieation to any represen- 
Pacific named below. 



LOS ANGELES. CAL.-250 South Spring Street. 

!■ o PKINCK. l'as».'iiger Agi-iu. 
NEW YORK CITY— 287 Broadway. 

I; IKNKIHM'.l'K, <;.'ii,'i al E.LStern Agent. 
OAKLAND. CAL -1160 Bro.adway. 

li V. KL.VSliEL. -Vg.-rit P'lsst-nger Department. 
OGDEN. UTAH— Union Depot. 

I'. A. IlENKY, Ticket Agent. 
OMAHA. NEB - 

L. l;EINlioi;l''F Traveling P.assenger Agent. OMi and Farnam .Sts. 

(IFo 1': \I',l;orT, iity Pa.'^s-i and Tiekel Ageiir. 1.302 Farnam St. 
PITTSBURG, PA. Second floor. Park Building. 

S.\M|I|'.I. .\ ^n El;s, Ttavellag Passenger Agent. 
PORTLAND. ORE. 135 Third Street. 

.1. II LoriIi;or, Geie lal .iuei.l 

ST. J0SE:PH. mo. Board ol Trade Building. 

S. M ADMT lleriei.il Krei^-lil and I'ass'i Agent. St. ,1. A G. I. Ky. 
ST. LOUIS, MO. 903 Olive Street, Century Building. 

J. F. AliLAI;, Gen.r.l Afeiii. 
ST. PAUL. MINN -376 Robert Street. 

II E. i'AKTEU Traieliiig I'asseTig.'i' Agent. 
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH -201 Main Street. 

II. M rL\Y clrneral A'gent P.issengei Iie|iarliiHMit. 
SAN FRANCISr-o. CAL.~1 Montgomery Street. 

II w. illTilIi'ocK. General .\gent Pa.ssenger liepartment. 
SEATTLE. 'WASH. 

Ni;\\ I'.LL PEITI':i:. Traveling Passenger Agent. 618 First Avenue. 
SIOUX CITY. lOW^A 603 Fourth Street. 

H M r.IKlisALL. I 'ity Passenger and Ticket Agent. 
TACOMA. WASH.- 

E. E ELLIS. G.'iier.'il Agent O.U &N.('o. 
YOKOHAMA. JAPAN-4 Water Street. 

T. D. McKay. (Jen'I Pass'r Agent San Francisco Overland Route. 
A Omaha, Nkb. 



E. DICKINSON, General Manager, 



E. L. LOIMAX, Cen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent. 



OMAHA. NEB. 



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